Take voting to 21st century

Monday, April 22, 2013

All the talk of Gerrymandering and manipulation of the electoral vote is much ado about nothing. When the GOP is in power, they want to redistrict the process and itís the same when the Dems are in power, all under the guise of not to disenfranchise anyone. The Electoral Vote process is from times past.

Technology today would allow for a count of the popular vote via computers or even a cell phone. Some security details would have to be worked out. But we pay bills online, order products and pay for them simultaneously. So, why not vote the same way?

We could eliminate layers of the process called District Delegates and the boondoggle they have at each National Election as well as the need to set up polling places. Absentee ballots are mailed out and counted upon return. All of this is paid for by taxpayers.

Each voter could be given a PIN number based on a social security number or other ID to electronically vote in all elections.

Those few without computers could still get a paper mail-in ballot that is bar coded for tabulating right into the same electronic data base vote process. This could be billions of dollars in savings.